Judd Gregg

President Bush will leave his successor with a record-high budget deficit of $482 billion, according to an administration estimate released yesterday. White House officials blamed the slowing economy and a $150billion bipartisan stimulus package for...

President Bush will leave his successor with a record-high budget deficit of $482 billion, according to an administration estimate released Monday. White House officials blamed the slowing economy and a $150-billion bipartisan stimulus package for the...

Congress sent President Bush legislation Saturday designed to help homeowners avoid foreclosure, spur home buying and prop up struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The president intends to sign the bill as soon as he receives it. It...

The price tag for the nation's housing crisis escalated again with reports Tuesday that a record number of Californians lost their homes to foreclosure in the last three months and that a potential bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

A federal rescue of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could cost taxpayers as much as $25 billion, Congress' top budget analyst said yesterday. But Peter R. Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office, predicted in a letter to...

Note to congressional Republicans: Playing games with your own president's popular foreign aid programs, which enjoy bipartisan support and are helping to repair the United States' tattered international reputation, is not the pathway to electoral success...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Critics fear the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will adopt a rule in the waning days of the Bush administration that will make it easier to build coal-fired power plants near national parks. The proposed change, pending...

by Frank James Maybe God hates the farm bill, too. Many critics have complained about the $300 billion, give or take a few billion, farm bill being an unwarranted giveaway to wealthy farmers at a time when farm incomes are......

Since 9/11, the United States has placed greater importance on backing a Pakistani leader who will fight Islamic terrorism than on encouraging democracy for that troubled nation. The result is a country that is no more democratic and is now dangerously...

The presidential candidates return Friday morning to a state in transition, pitching their appeals not just to longtime New Englanders, but to the many newcomers who have arrived in recent years. A little more than a year after voters in New Hampshire...

Every four years, critics from across the country grouse about this tiny state's disproportionate influence on the presidential election. And it's hard to ignore the fact that New Hampshire, whose population is 96% white, does not look like a lot of the...

Republicans beat back a last-ditch attempt by New York's senators to boost federal homeland security funding by more than $1 billion, in an effort to offset 40 percent in cuts to anti-terror grants to the state and city. In a procedural vote that split...